Railway-car construction.



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1 u un' l 'If/g z ik Ik I?. M. BRINCKERHUFF 6L L. B. STILLWELL.

RAILWAY CAR -EONSIRUCTIOM APPLICATION FILED AUG.2`0. 1914. RENEWED MAY 23, |91?.

Patentedun 26.3,29m

REVIEWED MAY 23,191?.

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RAILWAY GAR CONSTRUCTION.

| I l l I I l 1 l III 60. In 'thisform of the invention the strue tural iron member 56 may take a niimber of different forms, but We prefer to employ a channel iron having the web 65 and Hanges 66 extending at right angles thereto. Inthis form of the invention. the shockresisting member may be connected to the plate by being laid on top thereoiu and having the lower tlange 66 oi' said member riveted to the plate, asshown in detail in Fig. 9. -Said member may be secured additionall)T to the plate by means of an angle iron (S7 laid on top of said plate and having its members riveted 'respectively to vthe plate a nd said member. @ne or more trans verse stiiieners GS may be emplogf'ed to bridge tlie'speee between the members 56, and to be riveted to the transverse edge portion of the member l5 to brace, and add rigidity 'to the structure.`

What We claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is- 1. A car structure comprising a floor, side f walls, end Walls, a roof structure including roof 'sheathing7 angular-ly disposed members beneath the roof structure, said members be ing connected to each other and to the roof structure and to 'a side wall and constituting a girder member extending longitudinally of the ear at the roof' portion, seidgirder mein ber being ooperable with the end Walls toi resist coli-.ipse 0i' said end Walls.

2. In a car strueture, a hoor, end walls, side Walls, and a roof structure ineluding eariines, and a root sheathing. vertically and horizontally disposed plates beneath vthe een lines, said plates being connected .to eaeh other along one edge and at their otheredges to the roof structure, and a Aside Wall respee` tively. seid plates and roof`sheathing towning a girder extending longitudinally of the ear and cooperating with the end Wallsto resist impact shocks on seid end Walls.

. 3. A ear structure comprising aioor, side Walls, end Walls, a rooi strulet'ire including roof sheathing and a deck structure, end e hollow member extending longitudinally of the car et the roof ,portion sind adapted to;

.resist collapse of the end Walls, the Wall of said member being composed in part of the A roof sheathing and the decl structure- 4. A ear structure comprising. a floor, side i' Walls7 end Walls, a roof structure including roof sheathing, a deck structure composed of angel-arly disposed web members, and e member extending 'longitudinally of vthe ear at the roof portionand cgyperable with the end Walls to resist collapse of the seid' end Walls, said member includ-ing the roei' sheathing .and the singularly. disposed web members of the deel; structure.

' A oar structure comp-rising a. door', side is, end Walls5 e roeiE structure including sheathing and adeek structure forn-` posed Vertical and longitudinal W miniem@ Lese i1-,fi ear structure comprising a door, side Valls andend Walls, earlines, a roeil sheathmg covering the` earlines; an element eX tending longitudinally of the ear and located beneath the eerlines and parallel to: afside wall, and web members disposed at angles to each other and Connected to, the 'said elfesA ment andeariines, and tosaidelement and the side Wall respeetively, seid sheathing,

boX-girder structure adapted to 'resist col-l lapse of the end Walls or' the'ear.

S. A car structure comprising a door, side walls and end Walls. earlines'. a roof sheath ing covering the carlines, en element extend ing longitudinally of the @atrend located be neatli the'eailines and parallel to a side Waflh stiiieners'eonnecting said element with. the carlines above said element and to the side wall. and web members extending longitudi L of the car end rigidlyv 4cenneeiieo, to said stitleners, seid sheetlning element, stiiieners and web members constituting a bozegirder strueture4 adapted to resist collapse of the end Walls oi the ear.

9. A ear structure eemprising a iioorg sid- -Walls and end Wells, earlines, -a roof sheath ing covering the oarlines, anelement extendlongitudinally of the ear endv located beneath the earlines and persil-:el te a side Well, Web members disposed at angles to epi; other and eonneeted to thesaid ele ment the esrlines, and tel seid element and the side 'Well respectively, and stili'ening means for said web members.

3 0. A car striiei'aireV comprising a. door., side Walls, end Wells.i a reef structure and trian ler boxsfirder 'extendin lon ritualinelly of the car at the roof portion, and adapted to resist collapseof the end Walls.

" il. .A enr structure eomprising a floor, side Weils, end `Wells, roof structure,` and a 'triangular boxsgirder extending lengitndh nelly 'of the eer atr the roei portion, and

adapted to resist collapse of the end Wells,v

one Wali of said boX-girder being formed by said roof sheet-hing, l

lf2, A eer structure cemprisins a door, side Walls. endwalls, roof struc ire and roofellething end it boxgirder extending longitudinally ei? theear the roei* portion,

element and web members constituting a'.

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und :uluptw im waist cohps .of the. and signed uur names in the prusenczu of twv wnls, sand bux-gllllvr bmng Substantially subscmblng \\1t-UQSS:

trnnguinl' in cross-suction und one Wall. F'l-INCIS M. BRTN KERHOFI". the'oofbcing formed luy said, roof sheathing, LEVIS B. SIILL\VELL.

.5 und the other walls by web members ex- W/VtueSseS:

tending lvngthwse of the car. 4 HAROLD E. LOMBARD,

In tcstmony whereof we have hereunto XV. C. LLOYD.

Correction 'rn Letters Patent No. 1,231,236.

It. is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 1,231,236, granted Jui-.v ifi. 1917, upon the application of Francis M. Brinckerho', uf Englewood, and Iii-,wis iX. Stillwell, of Lakewood, New Jersey, for an improvemenbn "Railway-Car (kmstruction," an error appears in the printed spocicato requiring correction is follows: Page 4,1ine 1'21, claim Il, after t-heword structure inserm the wurde and me," sheathing; and that. the said Letters Patent, should be `reed with this correction therein that the same may 'c'enform to the record of the caso in 1in:

Patent. Office.

Signed and sealed this 21st, day of August, A. D., 1917.

(sun.) i R.. F. WHITEHEM),

Acting Comm'isrioner of Patents` Cl. 105--20L 

